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Richard  Hinckley  Allen 


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RICHARD  HINCKLEY  ALLEN 


RICHARD  HINCKLEY  ALLEN 

In  flDemoriam 


PRIVATELY  PRINTED 
1908 


flDemodal  Service 

For  Mr.  Richard  Hinckley  Allen 

in 

THE  OGDEN  MEMORIAL  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH 

CHATHAM,  NEW  JERSEY 

Sunbas,  3anuan?  26tb,  1908 

At  3.45  o'clock 

©roer  of  Service 
QtQM  prelude 

t)Bmn  No.  781  -"For  All  The  Saints" 

psalter  —  Psalm  xxv. 

•fcgmn  No.  634-" Peace,  Perfect  Peace" 

prater  by  Dr.  Macnaughtan 

©ffertOrB  — Solo:  "O  Best  in  the  Lord"  from  "Elijah"... 

Mendelssohn 
Mr.  Irving  M.  Lum 

•fcgmn  No.  651 -"How  Firm  a  Foundation" 

IReaOtng  Joint  Resolution  of  Session  and  Board  of  Trustees 

SODressee  — By  Rev.  J.  Macnaughtan,  D.D., 

and  Rev.  W.  W.  Halloway,  D.D.,  of  Dover. 

prater  by  Dr.  W.  W.  Halloway 

Sntbem  —  "I  Will  Lay  Me  Down  in  Peace  " Choir 

©rjjan  postlufce 


BESOLUTION 

r*l  (tfzZ&  ^  ^s  w^h  sincere  and  deep  regret  that 
the  Session  and  Board  of  Trustees 
of    this    Church— The    Ogden    Me- 
morial   Presbyterian    Church— are 
called  upon  to  record  the  death  of 

flDr.  IRicbart)  Ibincfclep  alien 

for  so  many  years  efficiently  and  pleasantly  asso- 
ciated with  us  in  the  care  and  supervision  of  the 
spiritual  and  material  interests  of  this  congrega- 
tion. 

Mr.  Allen's  death  took  place  on  Tuesday,  Jan- 
uary 14,  1908,  at  Northampton,  Mass.,  where  he 
had  gone  to  attend  the  funeral  of  a  beloved  sister. 

We,  therefore,  as  a  Session  and  Board  of  Trus- 
tees, in  joint  meeting  convened,  desire  to  put 

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IN  MEMORIAM 

upon  record,  in  this  official  and  formal  way,  our 
sincere  and  hearty  appreciation  of  the  Christian 
character  and  manifold  services  of  our  deceased 
brother. 

Resolved : 

1  That,  largely  to  the  initiative,  unselfishness, 
the  wise  counsel,  the  contribution  of  personal  ser- 
vice and  generous  gifts  of  money,  by  our  de- 
parted brother,  are  we  now  in  possession  of  our 
present  fine  property  and  beautiful  house  of  wor- 
ship, with  its  sufficient  and  satisfactory  appoint- 
ments for  religious  services. 

2  That  the  very  honorable  place  accorded  to 
this  Church  in  the  Presbytery  of  Morris  and 
Orange,  is  due,  in  a  large  measure,  to  the  gen- 
erous contributions  of  Mr.  Allen  to  the  several 
Boards  and  other  benevolences  of  our  Church,  to 
whose  appeals  his  response  was  always  large  and 
free. 

3  That  while  recognizing  the  great  loss  which, 
as  a  Church  and  congregation,  we  have  sustained 
in  his  death,  and  the  increased  responsibility  laid 
upon  us  as  officers  of  the  Church  in  the  with- 
drawal of  his  counsel  and  help,  we  desire  also  to 
express  our  sense  of  personal  and  individual  be- 

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RICHARD  HINCKLEY  ALLEN 

reavement  in  the  loss  of  a  friend  beloved,  who, 
by  his  genial,  kindly  personality,  and  Christian 
and  gentlemanly  bearing,  had  endeared  himself 
to  each  one  of  us  personally. 

4  That  we  convey  to  Mrs.  Allen  the  expression 
of  our  profound  sympathy  with  her  in  the  great 
sorrow  that  God,  in  His  wise  providence  has  seen 
fit  to  lay  upon  her;  and  sincerely  pray  that  she 
may  be  sustained  and  comforted  by  our  Heavenly 
Father. 

5  That  these  resolutions,  of  the  joint  Boards, 
be  spread  on  the  minutes  of  each  body ;  that  they 
be  read  at  the  memorial  service  for  Mr.  Allen  on 
Sunday  afternoon,  January  26,  1908;  and  that 
a  copy  of  the  same  be  forwarded  to  the  widow  of 
our  deceased  brother,  by  the  Clerk  of  Session, 
signed  by  him  in  our  behalf. 

Guy  Minton,  Clerk. 


ADDRESS  BY 
REV.  JOHN  MACNATTGHTAN,  D.D. 


Deae  Friends  : 

JE  are  holding  this  service  this  after- 
noon in  memory  of  our  departed 
friend,  not  for  any  purposes  of 
eulogy.  To  no  one  could  that  be 
more  distasteful,  or  more  heartily  deprecated 
than  by  our  friend  himself.  He  was  very  con- 
scious of  sharing  with  us  our  common  human 
frailties,  and  shrank  instinctively  from  any  as- 
cription to  himself  of  fictitious  merit.  But  we 
have  all  felt  that  his  life  has  stood  for  some 
things  of  importance  and  worth  that  may  be 
profitably  pondered  by  those  of  us  who  have 
known  him  and  worked  with  him  in  the  Church 
and  community;  and  it  is  to  these  things  I  wish 

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IN  MEMORIAM 

at  this  time  to  call  your  attention,  and  impress 
them  upon  my  own  heart  and  yours : 

1  In  the  first  place,  he  has  always  stood,  it 
seems  to  me,  for  a  very  desirable  form  of  piety, 
and  one  that  is  growing  less  and  less  common 
among  us,  and  that  to  our  serious  loss  and  in- 
jury, I  believe.  To-day,  to  say  a  man  is  a  Chris- 
tian may  mean  much  or  little.  It  may  stand  only 
for  a  name,  or  it  may  stand  for  a  fact.  We  al- 
ways want  to  know  the  kind  of  a  Christian  he  is. 
Our  friend  was  one  of  the  Christians  of  the  old 
type,  whose  profession  and  life  stood  for  certain 
conspicuous  facts.  His  was  a  Christian  life,  for 
example,  that  grounded  itself  in  God's  Word. 
He  was  a  student  of  the  Scriptures.  He  took 
time  to  read  and  understand  what  God  had  writ- 
ten, and  strove  to  make  it  the  guide  and  inspira- 
tion of  his  life.  The  Christianity  of  to-day  is 
sadly  lacking  in  this  regard.  The  religious  life 
of  so  many  of  us  consists  in  attendance  upon 
Church,  and  general  and  respectful  attention  to 
the  maintenance  of  the  orderly  worship  and  ser- 
vice of  God's  House.  There  is  a  sad  lack  of 
knowledge  of  the  Scriptures,  and,  too  often,  a 
mere  perfunctory  reading  of  the  Book.  With  our 
friend  the  reading  of  the  Bible  from  day  to  day 

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RICHARD  HINCKLEY  ALLEN 

meant  the  refreshing  of  his  soul  with  the  know- 
ledge of  the  divine  orders  given  therein  for  the 
guiding  and  the  shaping  of  his  life  for  the  doing 
of  his  daily  duty. 

Of  a  like  character  were  his  daily  devotions. 
He  found  time  for  the  observance  of  the  old- 
fashioned  family  worship.  He  was  vital  in  this 
matter,  too.  It  was  no  perfunctory  performance. 
It  meant  something  beyond  the  mere  compulsion 
of  dull  routine.  At  these  times  he  laid  his  own 
life,  and  that  of  those  he  loved,  in  the  hands  of 
God,  and  committed  them,  sleeping  and  waking, 
to  the  care  and  guidance  of  the  Almighty.  His 
morning  and  evening  ablutions  were  not  felt  to 
be  more  necessary  than  this  commitment  of  his 
affairs  to  the  care  and  keeping  of  God. 

He  was  old-fashioned,  too,  in  his  regard  for 
the  Sabbath.  Its  restraints  were  not  regarded  as 
slavish  hindrances,  and  embarrassments  to  free- 
dom and  pleasure.  It  was  God's  day— a  price- 
less, precious  gift,  to  help  him  to  the  attainment 
of  the  best.  Nothing  of  the  world  was  permitted 
to  enter  it  that  could  be  kept  out.  He  was  glad 
of  it  as  an  opportunity  to  lay  the  world  aside, 
and  have  freedom  to  remind  himself  of  the  things 
that  were  above.    There  is  much  that  is  ignorant 

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IN  MEMORIAM 

and  unwise  in  the  modern  attitude  toward  God's 
day.  How  much  the  religious  life,  in  its  de- 
fectiveness for  the  highest  uses,  is  owing  to  this,  I 
will  not  attempt  now  to  say.  But  I  do  know  that 
the  vigor  and  wholesomeness  of  the  religious  life 
our  friend  lived  could  be  traced  to  the  right  use, 
the  old-fashioned  use,  of  the  Christian  Sabbath. 

It  is  well  for  us,  therefore,  this  afternoon,  to 
thoughtfully  and  wisely  ponder  these  facts,  and 
lay  them  with  all  seriousness  upon  our  own 
hearts. 

2  But,  besides  these  underlying  conditions  of 
his  life,  he  stood  for  a  quality  of  service  that  is 
less  common  than  we  have  a  right  to  desire.  It 
was  service,  largely  and  commandingly,  inspired 
by  principle.  Mere  emotion,  occasion  or  impulse 
had  little  to  do  with  the  life  he  lived.  His  daily 
conduct  was  rational  and  intelligent  in  its  whole 
character  and  structure.  This  explains  many 
things  in  his  career.  It  was,  for  example,  late  in 
life  when  he  came  into  the  Church.  This  is  not 
saying  that  his  religious  life  was  late  of  begin- 
ning, but  that  the  step,  by  which  he  took  a  public 
stand  for  Christ,  was  one  deliberately  taken  and 
carefully  considered.  He  waited  for  the  con- 
viction of  duty.    Perhaps  he  may  have  been,  as 

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RICHARD  HINCKLEY  ALLEN 

so  many  are,  and  not  altogether  without  reason, 
over-sensitive  in  this  matter.  He  saw  how  many 
rushed  into  the  Church  impulsively  and  thought- 
lessly, and  soon  after  forgot  the  obligations  they 
had  so  solemnly  assumed ;  and  all  this  made  him 
hesitate  to  take  the  step  till  his  life  had  been  well 
matured.  But  when  it  was  made  clear  to  him 
that  it  was  his  duty,  he  decided  quickly,  and  his 
life  from  that  hour  was  consecrated  and  dedicated 
to  God.  There  was  no  halting  or  hesitation  after 
this  had  been  done. 

It  was  so,  too,  in  accepting  the  office  of  Elder- 
ship. He  faced  the  duties  the  position  involved, 
and  accepted  place,  not  as  conferring  honor,  but 
as  implying  service.  And  he  did  not  let  his  duties 
as  an  elder  terminate  with  the  Church  with  which 
he  was  immediately  identified.  He  recognized  its 
duties  as  lying  beyond  its  pale.  His  interest  in 
the  whole  field  covered  by  the  Boards  of  our 
Church  was  deep,  growing,  and  practical.  He 
gave  largely  of  his  means  for  the  support  of 
these;  and  of  his  special  interest  in  the  work  of 
evangelization  of  the  foreign  population  of  our 
own  State,  through  our  Synodical  Home  Mission 
Committee,  of  whose  Presbyterial  Committee  he 
was  a  member,  we  shall  hear  from  Dr.  Halloway, 

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IN  MEMORIAM 

who  is  with  us  this  afternoon.  And  in  connection 
with  this,  mention  should  be  made  of  his  work, 
covering  more  than  thirty  years,  in  the  Sunday- 
school  at  Oak  Ridge,  where,  through  his  devotion 
and  service,  he  has  been  the  mainstay  of  a  live 
and  enterprising  Sunday-school  work. 

Here,  again,  his  life  comes  to  us  with  lessons  it 
will  be  well  for  us  to  heed.  The  Church  needs 
to-day  more  of  the  quality  of  conscientiousness, 
and  more  of  the  sense  of  obligation,  which  he  dis- 
played. So  much  of  our  Church  life  is  conven- 
tional and  formal.  So  little  of  it  has  its  roots  in 
a  deep  sense  of  soul  hunger,  and  need  of  being 
fitted  for  doing  God's  will.  We  may  well  ponder 
this  phase  of  the  life  of  the  friend  who  has  passed 
away  from  us. 

3  To  his  sense  of  duty  we  have  to  add  another 
trait  of  the  character  of  our  friend,  that  is  less 
common  among  us,  also,  than  we  could  wish, 
namely,  the  wise  and  worthy  use  he  made  of  the 
means  God  had  entrusted  to  his  stewardship.  He 
was  one  of  the  small  number,  still  surviving,  who 
took  this  serious  view  of  their  relation  to  their 
possessions.  Few  men  whom  I  have  known,  have 
been  so  sensitive  to  the  real  obligations  of  wealth 
as  he.    The  simple  life  he  lived,  severely  simple, 

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RICHARD  HINCKLEY  ALLEN 

was  not  the  result  of  limited  income,  but  of  the 
fear  that  he  should  expend  upon  himself  more  of 
what  God  had  given  him  than  he  ought.  It  was 
not  privilege  and  opportunity  for  personal  pleas- 
ure and  ostentation,  that  wealth  brought  to  him, 
but  the  sense  of  obligation  for  its  best  and  wisest 
use  for  the  cause  of  God  in  the  world.  His  con- 
science had  much  to  do  with  the  regulation  of  the 
output  of  his  purse.  We  know  this,  in  the  condi- 
tions of  our  own  existence  as  a  Church.  His  large 
and  generous  gifts  have  had  much  to  do,  as  the 
resolutions  read  this  afternoon  testify,  with  our 
possession  of  this  beautiful  Church  home,  and  the 
lovely  grounds  in  the  midst  of  which  it  stands. 
Nor  is  it  needful  for  me  to  speak  of  the  sub- 
stantial reinforcement  to  our  means  of  Church 
support  his  gifts  have  always  been  to  us.  We 
have  all  recognized  this,  and  been  grateful  and 
thankful. 

And  since  I  have  been  among  you,  I  have  been 
hearing,  not  from  him,  for  he  never  spoke  of 
these  things  to  me,  but  from  the  causes  and  enter- 
prises that  have  been  the  beneficiaries  of  his 
generosity,  how  far-reaching  and  manifold  have 
been  his  gifts.  His  stewardship  of  his  posses- 
sions, the  sense  of  having  these  things  as  a  sacred 

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IN  MEMORIAM 

trust,  was  an  abiding  consciousness  of  his  life. 
He  never  put  aside  an  appeal  until  he  had  con- 
vinced himself  that  God  had  no  duties  for  him  in 
connection  with  it. 

There  is  surely  in  this  something  that  has  les- 
sons for  us  all.  Wealth,  for  what  it  gives  of  op- 
portunity for  pleasure,  for  ostentation,  for  the 
gratification  of  our  whims  and  our  personal  in- 
clinations, seems  to  be  the  ruling  thought  to-day 
in  the  Church  and  the  world.  There  is  no  growth 
in  benevolence  that  is  at  all  adequate  to  the  in- 
crease of  the  wealth  of  our  times.  If  the  men 
with  this  world's  goods  in  our  Churches  to-day, 
were  as  conscientious  as  our  friend  has  been  in 
the  administration  of  their  possessions,  the  whole 
work  of  the  Kingdom  would  be  delivered  from 
the  embarrassments  with  which  it  is  beset.  We 
need  a  revival  of  the  sense  of  stewardship  in  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  to-day  more  than  of  any 
other  kind— the  feeling  that  was  his,  that  pros- 
perity is  a  larger  opportunity  for  doing  good. 

It  is  out  of  these  characteristics  of  which  I 
have  spoken,  that  have  come  those  qualities  of 
life  and  heart,  that  make  the  services  this  after- 
noon so  fit  and  proper.  It  was  from  these  roots 
those  traits  of  manhood  drew  their  vitality  that 

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have  endeared  him  to  so  many  of  us— this  life 
with  its  splendid  form  of  piety,  with  its  mastery 
of  principle,  with  its  consciousness  of  life's  pos- 
sessions as  a  sacred  trust. 

The  results  of  this  scheme  of  life,  as  they  af- 
fected the  personality  of  our  friend,  I  can  only 
speak  of  now  in  the  briefest  way.  There  is,  first 
of  all,  his  faithfulness  in  every  matter  that  was 
required  of  him  by  his  profession,  as  a  Christian, 
and  in  his  position  as  an  elder  of  the  Church. 
The  claims  of  the  Church  did  not  rest  lightly 
upon  him.  He  gave  to  her  concerns  the  best  of 
himself,  in  prayer  and  in  service.  He  laid  her 
work  upon  his  heart,  and  life  had  no  pleasure  for 
him  that  equaled  the  joy  with  which  he  was  per- 
mitted to  contribute  to  her  growth  and  prosper- 
ity. 

Out  of  these,  too,  came  that  simplicity,  so  char- 
acteristic of  him.  He  made  no  claim  to  personal 
honor  on  the  ground  of  these  fidelities.  In  the 
face  of  so  much  effective  usefulness  there  was  no 
pretense  of  superiority,  or  claim  to  special  con- 
sideration. The  flavor  of  ostentation  belonged  to 
no  activity  of  his  among  us.  He  was  always,  only 
one  among  the  rest  of  us,  trying  to  do,  the  best  he 
knew  how,  the  duties  God  had  laid  upon  him— 

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IN  MEMORIAM 

too  glad  to  be  permitted  to  do  God  service  to 
have  any  thought  of  how  that  service  compared 
with  any  rendered  by  others. 

And,  last  of  all,  out  of  these  came  that  modesty 
that  we  all  respected  and  admired.  With  him  the 
repression  of  self  was  not  the  result  of  any  con- 
scious effort.  In  service  and  in  gifts  he  was 
rendering  to  his  Lord,  not  what  was  his,  but  what 
he  had  received.  He  was  not,  therefore,  in  any- 
thing conscious  of  being  especially  praiseworthy. 

And,  dear  friends,  these  are  the  things  that 
count  in  life — that  are  contributing  to  its  en- 
noblement and  exaltation.  Our  lives  are  to  be 
measured,  not  by  the  place  we  make  for  them 
in  the  world  of  business  or  fashion,  but  in 
the  work  done  for  the  Kingdom  of  God,  in  the 
lives  about  us  kindled  with  higher  impulses,  and 
inspired  to  higher  ideals  of  duty  and  destiny.  It 
is  for  these  things  we  are  grateful  to  our  brother, 
and  for  which,  this  afternoon,  we  give  grateful 
and  hearty  thanks  to  Almighty  God. 


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ADDRESS  BY 
REV.  W.  W.  HALLOWAY,  D.D. 


FEEL  honored  in  being  invited  to 
take  part  in  this  service,  and  glad  to 
be  able  to  bring  a  single  flower  to 
add  to  the  wreath  of  affection  which 
we  place  upon  the  casket  of  Mr.  Allen. 

My  relations  with  him  grew  out  of  my  work  for 
Synodical  Home  Missions  in  the  Presbytery. 
Some  years  ago,  on  my  return  home  from  Pres- 
bytery at  which  I  had  presented  the  needs  of  that 
work,  I  received  from  Mr.  Allen  a  letter  full  of 
sympathy  and  encouragement,  and  offering  prac- 
tical help. 

Perhaps  I  should  state  that  the  plan  of  Synod- 
ical Home  Missions  provides  for  the  raising  of  a 
certain  amount  of  money  each  year  in  the  Synod, 

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IN  MEMORIAM 

and  this  amount  is  apportioned  among  the  Pres- 
byteries, and  by  the  Presbyteries  apportioned 
among  the  Churches.  Our  Presbytery  has  made 
the  apportionment  at  thirty  cents  a  Church  mem- 
ber. But  as  some  Churches  which  are  rich  in 
membership  are  poor  in  financial  ability,  if  we 
would  raise  the  quota  of  Presbytery,  some  of  the 
stronger  Churches  must  give  more  than  their  ap- 
portionment. The  Synodical  year  ends  the  last 
day  of  September,  and  the  effort  to  adjust  the 
different  amounts  required,  and  to  secure  the  full 
quota  of  Presbytery  makes  a  strenuous  time  for 
the  chairman.  Mr.  Allen,  recognizing  this,  and 
being  in  full  sympathy  with  the  nature  of  Synod- 
ical Home  Mission  work,  offered  to  give  aid  to 
the  extent  of  $100,  so  that  any  deficiency  unpro- 
vided for  by  the  Churches  might  be  met.  For 
several  years  he  has  done  this,  and  the  result  has 
been  that  "Morris  and  Orange"  has  been  able, 
year  by  year,  to  report  its  full  apportionment 
as  raised.  The  Presbytery,  therefore,  has  been 
much  indebted  to  him — though  he  would  not  per- 
mit me  to  make  the  circumstances  known.  The 
chairman  also  felt  a  deep  gratitude  to  him  for 
doing  that  which  was  a  source  of  relief  to  him 
personally,  since  I  knew  that,  after  every  effort 

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RICHARD  HINCKLEY  ALLEN 

had  been  made  in  the  Churches,  if  any  deficiency 
existed,  Mr.  Allen  would  be  there  to  draw  upon. 

Yet  it  was  not  alone  for  his  generosity  in  giving 
that  I  grew  to  love  him.  He  became  a  member 
of  the  committee  at  my  request,  as  soon  as  a 
vacancy  occurred,  and  from  that  time  till  his 
death  was  faithful  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties. 
His  active  sympathy  with  the  work,  his  inquiring 
spirit,  his  wise  counsels,  his  genial  society,  made 
him  a  valuable  addition  to  our  number.  Indeed, 
I  have  known  him,  in  his  faithfulness,  to  attend 
a  committee  meeting,  when  he  was  in  physical 
pain  all  the  time,  and,  if  he  had  followed  the  dic- 
tates of  prudence  alone,  would  have  remained  at 
home. 

But  it  is  hard  to  portray  a  man  by  the  brush  of 
the  artist  or  the  words  of  the  preacher.  After  all, 
it  was  the  man  himself  that  counted  most,  his 
genial  and  attractive  personality.  I  would  apply 
to  him  that  misused  but  ever  pregnant  word— 
' '  gentleman. ' '  He  was  the  best  type  of  a  Chris- 
tian gentleman.  And  I  recall  Buskin's  words, 
"A  gentleman's  first  characteristic  is  that  fine- 
ness of  structure  of  the  body  which  renders  it 
capable  of  the  most  delicate  sensation;  and  of 
structure  of  the  mind  which  renders  it  capable  of 

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the  most  delicate  sympathies— one  may  say 
simply,  fineness  of  nature.  This  is,  of  course, 
compatible  with  heroic  bodily  strength  and  men- 
tal firmness;  in  fact,  heroic  strength  is  not  con- 
ceivable without  such  delicacy.  Elephantine 
strength  may  drive  its  way  through  a  forest,  and 
feel  no  touch  of  the  boughs,  but  the  white  skin  of 
Homer's  Atrides  would  have  felt  a  bent  rose-leaf, 
yet  subdue  its  feeling  in  glow  of  battle,  and  be- 
have like  iron." 

So  Mr.  Allen,  with  his  frail  health,  was  yet 
keyed  to  indefatigable  labors,  and  painstaking 
sacrifices,  and  consecrated  devotion  to  his  Mas- 
ter. This  high  breeding  as  a  gentleman  showed 
itself,  both  in  his  delicate  sensibilities  and  his 
heroic  service. 

Again,  I  think  of  him  as  a  Chosen  One.  I  be- 
lieve that  God  selects  men  with  reference  not  so 
much  to  their  eternal  condition  as  for  special 
service.  That  was  the  election  of  Israel— to  be 
the  servant  of  Jehovah,  and  as  servant  to  hand 
on  to  the  nations  of  the  world  its  oracles,  its  holy 
secrets,  its  coming  and  radiant  Saviour.  Christ 
elected  His  disciples,  He  told  them,  "that  ye 
should  go  and  bear  fruit,  and  that  your  fruit 
should  abide."    To  Paul  He  said,  "I  have  ap- 

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peared  unto  thee  for  this  purpose,  to  make  thee  a 
servant  and  a  witness."  I  account  for  the  mar- 
velous work  of  some  men  in  special  fields— for  the 
achievements  of  men  like  Moody  and  Brooks  and 
Spurgeon,  for  example— by  this  doctrine  of  elec- 
tion. God  chooses  some  men,  I  believe,  to  be 
special  channels  of  His  grace  and  power  to  their 
fellows.  They  may  be  no  better  equipped  in  the 
ordinary  sense  than  multitudes  of  their  fellows ; 
but  God  selects  them  out  of  His  infinite  wisdom, 
and,  by  their  absolute  yielding  to  Him,  they  be- 
come the  instruments  in  His  hands  to  work  a 
great  work.  Electricity  will  be  conducted  by 
some  substances  better  than  others.  I  do  not 
know  why  some  substances  are  conductors  and 
others  non-conductors.  Perhaps  even  the  elec- 
trician cannot  explain  it.  All  we  know  is  that 
electricity  chooses  some  substances  through 
which  it  will  convey  its  power  for  the  service  of 
men.  So  God  chooses  some  men  for  special  con- 
veyance of  His  blessings,  now  in  one  direction, 
now  in  another;  here  in  one  form,  there  in  an- 
other. I  think  of  Mr.  Allen  as  thus  chosen  by 
God  to  manifest  to  men  the  power  of  a  conse- 
crated life.  Mr.  Allen  yielded  himself  to  God  to 
become    this    instrument.      He    recognized    his 

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IN  MEMORIAM 

stewardship  of  his  wealth,  and  held  it  subject  to 
his  Master's  command.  He  made  his  will  sub- 
servient to  the  divine  will.  He  let  God  use  him, 
and  was  happy  to  be  His  servant.  He  was  a  good 
man,  "the  ripe  fruit  which  earth  presents  to 
God." 

Finally,  such  a  life  is  an  argument  for  immor- 
tality. We  cannot  believe  that  God  would  raise 
up  and  endow  such  a  life,  and  then  utterly  ex- 
tinguish it.  Even  men  do  not  build  just  to  de- 
stroy. Surely  God  does  not  disappoint  all  our 
hopes,  blast  all  our  expectations,  crush  all  our 
faith,  annihilate  all  our  being  by  any  such  pro- 
cess. This  life,  ended  on  earth,  must  go  on  some- 
where. This  character,  so  beautifully  developed, 
must  have  opportunities  further  on.  This  ser- 
vice, so  cheerfully  and  efficiently  rendered,  must 
have  its  fruition  somehow. 

Some  one  puts  it  this  way:  You  stand  by  the 
shore  and  witness  a  vessel  sailing  out  to  sea. 
Gradually,  it  draws  farther  and  farther  away, 
becomes  less  and  less  an  object  of  vision.  By  and 
by,  it  disappears  behind  the  horizon,  and  you  ex- 
claim, "There,  it  's  gone!"  Gone  where?  Out 
of  sight,  only.  But  it  is  still  making  its  way  on 
the  deep,  still  continuing  its  voyage.    And  on  the 

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farther  shore  are  those  who  wait  to  greet  its  com- 
ing, as  here  there  are  those  who  watch  its  going. 
We  say  of  our  friend, ' '  He  is  gone. ' '  But  it  is 
only  from  our  sight.  We  believe  that  he  still  is, 
and  that  he  will  continue  his  work  on  larger  fields 
and  with  grander  results  than  ever. 


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N  the  village  of  Manitowoc,  Wiscon- 
sin, as  far  back  as  the  thirties,  Rich- 
ard L.  Allen  had  bought  a  large 
tract  of  land,  in  the  development  of 
which  he  took  a  deep  interest.  He  and  his  son, 
who  succeeded  him  in  its  management,  were  al- 
ways hopeful  of  the  prosperous  future  of  the 
place. 

The  religious  interests  of  the  town  appealed  to 
them  both,  and  to  their  families,  and  the  follow- 
ing resolutions  bear  witness  to  this : 

Our  Heavenly  Father  having  called  from  earth 
the  late  Richard  H.  Allen  of  Chatham,  New  Jer- 
sey, a  constant  and  long  valued  friend  of  this 
Church,  we,  the  elders  and  trustees  in  joint  ses- 
sion, desire  to  extend  our  heartfelt  sympathy  to 
the  family  of  our  departed  friend. 

We  remember  with  appreciation  the  many  ex- 
pressions of  interest  by  the  deceased  in  and  for 

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IN  MEMORIAM 

the  welfare  of  this  Church,  as  well  as  the  sub- 
stantial assistance  which  he  has  so  many  times 
rendered  on  occasions  of  special  need. 

We  commend  the  bereaved  companion  and 
family  to  our  God  and  to  the  word  of  His  grace, 
and  we  pray  that  He  may  be  to  each  of  you  a 
"God  of  all  comfort,"  and  "The  Father  of 
mercies, ' '  at  this  time. 

(Signed)  Oliver  C.  Johnson,  Pastor. 

H.  F.  Hubbard  H.  F.  Hubbard 

J.  L.  Smalley  J.  F.  Pritchard 

C.  H.  Sedgwick  G.  P.  Houghton 

J.  E.  Plumb  J.  E.  Plumb 

P.  A.  Erickson  E.  M.  Kapitan 

J.  C.  Barrie  R.  E.  Hempton 

Elders.     Walter  Green 
J.  F.  Reardon 
G.  H.  Dickson 

Trustees. 

Done  by  order  of  the  Elders  and  Trustees  of 
the  Manitowoc  Presbyterian  Church. 


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From  "The  Envoy,"  of  February,  1908,  the  monthly  paper  pub- 
lished by  the  Presbyterian  Church,  Manitowoc,  Wisconsin. 


An  flDemoriam 

ALLEN 

'HE  name  of  Allen  will  always  be  a 
tender  memory  to  those  who  have 
had  a  part  in  the  struggles  of  the 
earlier  days  in  our  Church.  Early 
in  the  history  of  this  city  Richard  L.  Allen,  a  resi- 
dent of  New  York,  made  considerable  purchases 
of  real  estate,  part  of  which  is  now  within  the  city 
limits.  He  was  an  elder  in  the  Reformed  Dutch 
Church,  and  so  naturally  became  interested  in 
the  struggles  of  our  Church  at  that  time.  Two 
memorial  windows,  one  in  the  Church  and  one  in 
the  Manse,  bear  their  silent  testimony  to  the  gifts 
of  this  large-hearted  man,  who  time  and  again 

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responded  to  the  cry  of  need  from  this  congrega- 
tion. This  characteristic  generosity  is  illustrated 
by  a  memorandum  found  after  his  death,  which, 
after  mentioning  certain  gifts,  which  he  desired 
made  for  benevolent  purposes,  added,  "I  es- 
pecially recommend  to  my  wife  and  heirs  a  spirit 
and  acts  of  beneficence,  imitating  in  this  their 
blessed  Master,  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus 
Christ,  'who  went  about  doing  good,'  and  who 
suffered  every  privation  with  patient  self-denial, 
that  he  might  benefit  mankind  and  minister  to 
their  necessities." 

After  his  death,  September  22,  1869,  his  son, 
Richard  H.  Allen,  became  the  manager  of  his 
father's  estate,  continuing  in  that  capacity  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  January  14,  at  North- 
ampton, Mass.,  whither  he  had  gone  to  attend  the 
funeral  of  his  sister,  Mary  Isabel  Allen,  whose 
death  preceded  his  but  six  days.  He  had  been 
long  in  the  service  of  the  Chatham,  New  Jer- 
sey, Presbyterian  Church  as  an  officer,  and  for 
thirty  years  had  acted  as  Superintendent  of  a 
union  Sabbath  School  near  his  home.  The  same 
spirit  of  generosity  which  had  characterized  the 
father  was  continued  in  the  son.  He  seldom  came 
to  the  city  on  business  but  that  he  visited  the 

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Manse,  and  became  acquainted  in  turn  with  each 
of  the  pastors,  always  revealing  his  great  inter- 
est in  the  welfare  of  this  Church.  He  was  the 
first  person  outside  of  the  congregation  to  order 
' '  The  Envoy. ' '  And  now  that  he  and  his  sister  be- 
loved have  passed  on  to  the  General  Assembly  of 
the  Church  of  the  first-born  in  Heaven,  we  can  the 
more  fully  realize  that  we  have  been  the  gainers 
through  a  friendship  of  two  generations  with  the 
Allen  family.  The  widow,  formerly  Miss  Mary 
C.  Wallace  of  Chatham,  N.  J.,  and  one  brother, 
the  Rev.  Arthur  H.  Allen,  with  his  daughter,  Miss 
Agnes  Gr.  C.  Allen,  are  the  surviving  members  of 
the  family. 


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IMMORTALITY:  WHAT  IS  IT? 

;  MONG  the  men  and  women  whom  we 
meet  on  the  highways  and  byways  of 
life's  journey,  there  are  some  whose 
eagle  eyes  have  pierced  through 
earthly  matter,  and  solved  problems  too  difficult 
for  the  mass  of  mankind ;  many  whose  ears  have 
heard  music  too  faint  for  us  to  catch,  and  others 
whose  knowledge  of  the  workings  of  nature  is 
profound  and  deep.  But  too  seldom  is  this 
knowledge  a  step  to  higher  and  better  things. 
Too  often  it  leads  to  conceit  and  vainglory,  and 
not,  as  it  should,  to  humility  before  the  great  God 
who  has  created  all  these  mysteries,  that  we  may 
feel  our  littleness  in  His  sight,  and  bow  adoring 
at  His  feet. 

Richard  Hinckley  Allen's  love  of  nature  led 
him  to  study  her  mysteries  from  boyhood,  and 

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IN  MEMORIAM 

while  his  knowledge  of  the  heavenly  bodies,  and 
of  birds  great  and  small,  was  far  superior  to  that 
of  the  average  man,  his  modesty  was  such  that 
only  a  few  kindred  spirits  discovered  how  varied 
and  deep  had  been  his  investigations.  He  saw 
greater  harmony  and  beauty  in  a  glorious  sunset 
than  was  revealed  to  our  eyes;  there  was  an  in- 
tensity in  his  gaze  that  showed  how  his  soul  was 
absorbed  in  the  sight,  and,  like  a  prophet  of  the 
night,  when  the  light  of  day  had  vanished,  he 
would  name  star  after  star,  and  planet  after 
planet,  speaking  of  their  relations  to  one  another 
and  of  the  meaning  of  their  names,  as  if  he  were 
more  at  home  among  their  glories  than  most  men 
would  be  with  the  persons  and  things  of  their 
daily  environment. 

An  earnest  Christian,  his  first  and  best  thoughts 
were  given  to  the  things  of  the  Kingdom,  to  the 
Church  to  which  he  belonged,  denying  himself, 
that  he  might  promote  her  interests  at  home  and 
abroad ;  and  not  even  those  nearest  to  him  knew 
how  many  needy  ones  had  been  gladdened  by  his 
ministrations. 

And  now  he  is  no  longer  with  us ;  but  who  can 
think  the  thoughts  and  live  the  life  that  he  did, 
without  being  better  prepared  to  enjoy  the  ser- 

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vice  and  the  blessed  employments  of  the  Home, 
which  he  has  now  entered? 

"Master,  he  whom  thou  lovest  is  dead!" 
' '  Yes,  my  child,  truly  dead  to  the  pain  and  sor- 
row and  gloom  of  earth,  to  all  partings  and  temp- 
tations, and  to  the  suffering  which  he  bore  so 
patiently  on  his  journey  to  the  better  land.  But 
the  life  that  he  is  now  living  is  more  full  of  sweet- 
ness and  beauty  and  joy  than  earth  can  offer.  He 
is  learning  more  than  he  could  ever  have  learned 
on  earth.  Does  he  not  love  more  tenderly?  Is  he 
not  immortal?" 

S.  W. 


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ISABEL  AND  RICHARD 


Mary  Isabel  Allen  died  at  Dansville,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  8,  1908,  and 
Bichard  Hinckley  Allen,  at  Northampton,  Mass.,  Jan.  14,  1908. 

"They  were  lovely  and  pleasant  in  their  lives,  and  in  their 
death  they  were  not  divided." 


SABEL  and  Richard,  over  threescore 
years  on  earth,  and  but  six  days  apart 
in  entering  heaven.  On  earth  in 
point  of  seniority  it  was  Richard  and 
Isabel,  but  into  the  light  of  heaven  she  entered 
first,  and  there  the  senior  saint  is  Isabel.  They 
were  born  in  the  same  house  on  the  banks  of  the 
Niagara  River  below  the  growing  town  of  Buf- 
falo. Both  of  them  were  literary  in  their  tastes, 
and  as  a  child  he  loved  the  stars,  and  grew  to  love 
them  more  and  more  with  all  his  scholarly  mind, 

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IN  MEMORIAM 

which  made  him  when  a  young  man  a  walking 
encyclopedia,  as  his  classmates  called  him.  His 
" Star-Names  and  Their  Meanings"  is  the  fruit 
of  years  of  research  and  ripe  learning ;  you  might 
call  it  a  literary  history  of  the  stars.  Can  we,  in 
our  boldest  fancy,  imagine  what  he  now  sees  of 
those  myriads  of  worlds,  in  whose  existence  and 
names  he  took  such  keen  delight  1  He  passed  with 
honor  through  one  year  at  Yale  College  in  the 
class  of  '60,  but  then  his  eyes  forced  him  to  with- 
draw for  a  year,  and,  yielding  to  his  father's 
longing,  he  went  into  business  with  him.  There 
was  often  a  wistful,  hungry  look  in  his  eyes  when 
he  spoke  of  his  college.  Yet  in  mental  culture  he 
outranked  how  immeasurably  many  a  graduate. 

Her  love  of  literature  was  as  great  as  her 
brother's,  and  as  wide-reaching.  French,  Ger- 
man, and  Italian  she  read  with  ease,  and  spoke 
with  fluency.  She  had  a  good  style,  and  wrote 
some  beautiful  verses,  which  have  been  printed, 
besides  translations  and  papers  for  private  clubs. 
One  of  her  best  she  herself  thought  was  this  little 
poem,  which  she  sent  to  this  paper  two  Christ- 
mases  ago : 


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THE  FIR-TREE 


I  am  like  a  green  fir  tree  ;  from  Me  is  thy  fruit  found. 

Hosea  xiv 


The  wondrous  babe  on  Mary's  breast 

Closes  His  wistful  eyes  in  rest. 

He  does  not  know  there  will  be  drest 

For  Him  a  tree, 

Where  men  shall  see 
The  fruit  of  God's  great  love. 

To  man 's  estate  at  last  He  came, 

He  healed  the  sick,  the  deaf,  the  lame— 

Men  heard  the  blind  man,  cured,  proclaim 

' '  I  once  was  blind,  but  now  I  see, 

Christ  is  the  tree 

That  bears  for  me 
This  fruit  of  God's  great  love." 

And  when  they  hung  Him  on  the  tree 

That  fearful  day  on  Calvary, 

The  women  wept  and  moaned,  ' '  Ah,  me ! 

That  such  a  tree 

Should  bear  for  me 
The  fruit  of  God's  great  love." 
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IN  MEMORIAM 

Since  then,  a  sound  of  joyous  mirth 

At  Christmas-tide  rolls  round  the  earth, 

The  children  stand  beneath  a  tree, 

And  through  its  gifts  the  Christ-child  see. 

They  hear  him  saying  lovingly, 

' '  This  is  the  tree 

That  bears  for  thee 
The  fruit  of  God's  great  love." 

Best  of  all,  in  their  religious  life  they  were  not 
divided.  She  came  into  the  visible  Church  at  an 
earlier  age  than  he.  He  was  past  thirty,  when 
he  united  with  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chat- 
ham, of  which  he  later  was  elected  trustee  and 
elder,  but  he  had  already  been  teaching  a  class 
in  the  White  Oak  Kidge  Sunday-school.  After  he 
joined  the  Church,  they  elected  him  superinten- 
dent, and  kept  him  in  office  year  after  year  until 
he  died.  His  prayers  at  the  family  altar  were 
humble  and  reverent,  touching  in  their  beautiful 
simplicity.  In  public  prayer  he  had  the  same 
natural  diffidence  as  his  beloved  father. 

She  was  a  manager  of  the  Woman 's  Union  Mis- 
sionary Society,  and  there,  as  officers  of  the  so- 
ciety bear  witness,  it  was  uplifting  to  listen  to  her 
prayers.    One  of  them  says,  "I  never  heard  her 

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fervent  petitions,  but  that  the  conviction  came  to 
me  of  a  definite  answer. ' ' 

In  their  love  for  others  they  were  united.  They 
had  too  keen  an  insight  into  human  nature  not  to 
see  and  sometimes  to  criticise  the  faults  of  others. 
But  their  goodwill  was  far-reaching.  They  both 
were  most  generous.  Gifts  large  and  small  made 
glad  the  hearts  of  missionaries  and  obscure  work- 
ers for  the  Master  in  many  quarters  of  the  globe. 
Many  a  heart  they  made  to  sing  for  joy.  There 
is  a  chorus  of  harmonious  praise  from  those 
whose  lives  were  brightened  by  their  kind 
thoughts  and  substantial  gifts,  some  of  whom 
have  welcomed  them  into  their  heavenly  home. 
For  we  have  no  doubt,  according  to  the  promises 
of  Jesus,  that  they  are  with  Christ,  which  is  far 
better.  This  beautiful  Sunday,  his  first  and  her 
second  in  the  City  of  Light,  they  walk  with  Him  in 
white,  for  they  are  worthy.  HI  health  and  weak- 
ness, distress  and  pain  are  over.  She  sleeps  in 
historic  ground  at  Northampton,  he  by  the  banks 
of  the  Passaic  in  Newark,  but  they,  their  noblest 
and  best,  their  true  selves  whom  we  loved,  are 
safe  within  the  gates  of  pearl,  and  they  beckon  us 
to  follow.  A    jj    a. 

— From  "The  Christian  Intelligencer,"  January  29,  1908. 

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